challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3

Jo Rhett jrhett at netconsonance.com
Wed Jun 4 23:57:42 UTC 2008


On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> We have about 40 servers which were running 6.1 and 6.2 and the
> seven busy ones (application servers which do mail and proxying,
> and the database servers) hung *dead* every week. One per day.

I'm sorry to hear that.  Our servers have never hung with 6.2.   
Reboots only occurred to satisfy kernel security patches.

But with 6.3 there are many open bug reports about our exact hardware,  
and I'd prefer to avoid swapping positions with you ;-0

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness




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